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| Date: | 05 15 1965 |
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| Description: | Girl Scouts cooking hotdogs over an open fire. The Great Blue Heron council weekend campout was held at Hartland Sportsman's Club grounds. |
| Date: | 07 26 1930 |
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| Description: | Ed Sullivan, age 11, 1119 W. Dayton Street, and Gordon Todd, 118 N. Charter Street, sitting in a tree in the 1100 block of W. Dayton Street, pursuing the t... |
| Date: | 07 11 1930 |
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| Description: | Paul Vilbrandt, age 10, standing by a tree and ladder at the 1200 block of West Dayton Street, hoping to break the tree sitting record of Jimmie Clemons of... |
| Date: | 07 12 1955 |
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| Description: | Lake Mendota water skiers, Joanna (Josie) Mayer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gottfried Mayer, (523 Farwell Drive), and Jimmy Schneiders, son of Dr. and Mrs. E... |
| Date: | 07 12 1955 |
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| Description: | Lake Mendota skin-divers, Dick Charmley and Gary Davies, shown with fish that they have harpooned. Dick is the son of Mr. and Mrs. C.C. Charmley, 20 Paget ... |
| Date: | 07 12 1955 |
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| Description: | Skin-divers Dick Charmley and Gary Davies with harpoon in Lake Mendota preparing to fish. Dick Charmley is the son of Mr. and Mrs. C.C. Charmley, 20 Paget ... |
| Date: | 07 22 1947 |
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| Description: | Sailing instructor at YMCA Camp Wakanda Harry Stuhldreher Jr. is shown steering a sail boat on Lake Mendota with (L to R) Timothy Rice, Dick Lower, and Ran... |
| Date: | 01 20 1948 |
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| Description: | Two teenage skiers poised at the top of the hill at Blackhawk Ski Run. Hartman Axley is on the left and Bob Herman on the right. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Long wooden pier with people fishing along the pier. Three males with their fishing poles and buckets are walking toward the viewer. A person next to a b... |
| Date: | 07 27 1948 |
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| Description: | Four campers hike along a trail at Camp Wakanda, left to right: Raymond Nagel, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Nagel, 2810 Dahl Street, Carl Fosmark, son of Dr. ... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A man diving off a pier into the Mississippi River. Another man is swimming in the water, while other men and boys are standing on the floating pier. |
| Date: | 06 1927 |
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| Description: | A boy sits in a boat on a pier, with his fishing pole and a dog (Max) at his side. In the background is the far shoreline. |
| Date: | 07 1940 |
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| Description: | The bathing beach and bath house at Copper Falls State Park. Two swimmers are sitting and standing on a dock with a platform. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A young boy and girl posed inside of the Elephant Cave in the east bluffs at Devil's Lake State Park. |
| Date: | 07 1940 |
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| Description: | Two boys and two girls swimming at the Bad River at Copper Falls State Park. One of the girls is diving off the dock that also has a platform. In the backg... |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Syl and friends holding handfuls of twigs investigating an anthill. |
| Date: | 05 1955 |
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| Description: | Carl Wettengel, a board member of the rifle club, addressing a room full of parents and youth members inside the clubhouse about the history of the group. ... |
| Date: | 06 04 1957 |
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| Description: | Den Mother J. E. Maddrell carries a try of cupcakes with den chief assistant John Carrier who has a jug of grapeade. The Cub Scouts are (left to right): To... |
| Date: | 06 04 1957 |
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| Description: | Gene Maddrell carries firewood for the fire pit where the scouts are building a fire to cook their lunch of hot dogs and buns with baked beans at Hoyt Park... |
| Date: | 08 22 1913 |
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| Description: | An informal group portrait of some of the Holt and Stroh cousins, along with Uncle Wallace Rumsey. Jeannette Holt and Wallace Rumsey are holding metal milk... |
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